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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1186425, member: 19463&quot;]Of the thrills awaiting me at a small local show Friday was this Republican denarius of C. Vibius C.F. Pansa.&nbsp; I am probably the only one who likes it because of its major fault and I&#039;m sure that the price paid was reduced considerably because most collectors would consider it damaged goods.&nbsp; This is my least extreme example of a flan reduced in weight before striking by gouging out a scoop of silver creating a recess on the reverse that the striking failed to erase.&nbsp; A more extreme coin showing this normal mint practice is shown on my grading page as <a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/grade2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/grade2.html" rel="nofollow">&#039;Adjustment Marks&#039;.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What I see here is a normal coin with better than usual strike, toning and wear that was selected before it was struck as &#039;victim&#039; of the need to put out a certain number of coins from a certain weight of silver so it was eliminated from consideration by most collectors.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather have it than a &#039;normal&#039; one off center, harshly cleaned or more worn.&nbsp; Auction results I have found for the type suggests I am the correct strange person to own this &#039;defective&#039; coin.&nbsp; To me, this is like the early US dollars with a silver plug in the center hole (you wouldn&#039;t want one of them either - right?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Several other coins I got at the show were strange as well but this is probably the leader of the pack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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